Improvement in calendar-inkstands



1-"; RATOLIFP: Calendar Inkstand.

jPatentedMa r hQB,1878.."

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UNITED Srnrns PATENT. OFFICE.

FREDERICK RATGLIFF, or MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

IM PRO VEM'ENT IN CALENDAR-INKSTANDS.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 201,831, dated March 26, 1878 application filed December 15, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I FREDERICK'RATCLIFF, of Meriden, State of onnecticut, have inventeda new and valuable Improvement in Calendars and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making slide and the days of the month on said receptacle, the month-slot having on its edge the names of the days of the week, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates acylindrical receptacle for ink, pounce, wafers, collars, or other articles, and made out of metal, wood, glass, paper, or other suitable material. This receptacle has a bearing-flange at the upper edge of its barrel, by means of which it is suspended inside of a cylindrical shell, B. Below this flange, lettered a, is an annular groove, b, of sufficient width to receive a flat annulus, c, of metal or paper or other suitable material, upon which the names of the months are engraved, stamped, printed, or otherwise applied, in their regular order.

The month-strip 0 slides readily in its groove seat. Below this slide, upon the receptacle, the days of the month are arranged in six horizontal rows, the first row containing the numbers from 1 to 7, the second row from 2 to 14, the third row from 9 to 21, the fourth row from 16 to 28, the fifth row from 23 to 31, and the sixth row from 30 to 31.

The figure 1 is seven removes from each end of the top row, and has below it, in the second row, the figure 8, at each side of which including this figure 8, are arranged the figwhich position the pin d is received in one of seven spaced notches, 0, cut in the inner edge of the shell B, as shown in Fig. 3. These notches are directly opposite the names or initials of the days of the week, out or other- Wise applied at the upper margin of a viewslot, f, formed in the side of the shell, and by shifting the pin from one notch to another the figure 1, or the first day of the month, will be just below the day of the week corresponding to' the said notch. By this means the figure 1 of the shell may be adjusted under the name of the day of the week which is the first day of the month, with accuracy and ease.

The view-slot f is of sufficient dimensions to expose the full number of figures, from 1 to 31, in a month, whatever be the position of the former relative to the days of the week.

Above the slot f in shell B a second slot, 1

f, is cut on a level with the month-strip c on the receptacle, through which the name of the month is readily read.

The operation of my calendar is as follows: The month being December, the year 187?, and the first day of the month Saturday, the receptacle is raised until the pin clears the notches of the shell, and turned until the figure 1 and the letter S are opposite each other. The pin 01 is then inserted in the appropriate notch of the shell, thus locking the receptacle against casual displacement, and the monthstrip turned, by means of a pin extended through the slot f, until the letters Dec. are visible through said slot. The operation is then complete as far as the month of De In testimony that I claim the above I have ceinber is concerned. The same adjustment hereunto subscribed my name in the presence is applicable to any other month. of two witnesses.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is FREDERICK RATGLIFF.

The combination, in a calendar, with a shell, I

B, having the spaced notches e and view-slots Witnesses:

ff, of the vessel A, having a pin, d, adapt- E. A. MERRIMAN,

ed to be received in the said notches, substan- HENRY BERRY.

tially as specified. 

